Stock-car



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(No Model.)

J. MONTGOMERY.

STOCK GAR.

Patented Feb. 5, 1889.

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3 Sheets-Sheet 3.

(No Model.)

J. MONTGOMERY.

STOCK CAR.

Patented Feb. 5, 1889 WITNESSES a Jlttor ney UNITED STAT S PATENT EFICE.

JAMES MONTGOMERY, OF EAST MILLSTONE, NEW JERSEY.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,199, dated February5, 1889.

Application filed April 4:, 1.888!

T0 QLZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES MONTGOMERY, a citizen of the United States,residing at East Millstone, in the county of Somerset and Stateof NewJersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in.Stock-Oars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to improvements in cars the bodies of which arespecially designed and built for feeding and watering eral figures ofwhich like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a side elevationof one form of my stock-car. cross-section taken in the plane of line :0a, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one form of hinged or foldingshuttenboard for the hay-rack, showing the shutterboard in unnaturalposition. Figs. a and 5 are side and perspective views of two forms ofwater distributers. Fig. 6 is a section similar to Fig. 2, but showingthe form of hay-rack illustrated in Fig. 3. of details of one form ofwatering apparatus,

the same as is shown in Fig. 1; Figs. 8, 9, and l 10, respectively,sectional, perspective, and

plan views giving in detail the construction of the preferred form ofdrinkingtrough. Figs. 11 to 14 are diagrams illustrating details ofdrinking-trou hs; and Fig. 15 is a sectional end view ofthedrinking-trough shown in Figs. 1 and 7, and in addition showing aguttor for waste water.

The body a of the car is made with doors 1) the drinking-troughs withwater.

at opposite ends of' opposite sides (see full and dotted lines, Fig. 1)for the greater convenience in loading and unloading and for thebetterarrangement or distribution of the Fig. 2 is a vertical Fig. 7 isa perspective view replace the break in the usual foot or run- 90 SerialNo. 269,597. (No model.)

feeding and watering appliances, presently described.

In one or both ends 0 of the car a small door, (I, is provided (see Fig.2) for faeilitat 'ing the entrance of a person into the car when for anypurpose it is necessary for him to get at and among the animalsor otherfreight. Trap-doors e e are also provided in the end or ends of the car,and substantially on the floor-level, (see Fig. 6,) for facilitating theloading and unloading of rails, lumber, and other long freight.

Hay-binsff are arranged on each side of the car in the roof, and openinto hay-racks, as will presently appear. The hay-bins terminate shortof the center of the car, so as to leave an open. space for theclearance of snow .and rain and for the reception of the water tank orreceiver g, as set forth in my concurrent application before referredto; but in order to complete this specification I will say here thatthis tank or receiver is a metal vessel having its bottom g slantingboth ways from a median line or plane, so as to theroughly empty ordrain the vessel, and constructed with two inlet-columns, g g whichstraddle the ridge-pole 71 of the car and project through the roof ofthe car on each side of the ridge-pole, thus obiiating the necessity ofcutting away the ridge-pole for the reception of the water-tank, as hasbeen the case in some prior constructions. The tank is rigidly suspendedfrom the roof of the car in this position and location by any suitablemeans. A hinged cover, g is attached to the mouths of the inlet columnsg g to eX- I elude dirt and cinders, and also to cover or ning board onthe top of the car, and to fa cilitate the filling of the tank-forexample,

by means of the apparatus forming the subject of my concurrentapplication entitled, apparatus for supplying trains of stock- 5 carswith water. The inlet-columns g g have the overflow-pipes q gff leadingdown to the e. ves of the car-roof, and the distributingpipes o gleading from opposite sides of the bottom of the tank into position tosupply I00 In Figs. 1, 7, and 8 I have shown the drinking-troughs '2 ascomposed of a number of individual basins, (heretofore patented, and

hence not, per se, of this i'nvention,) which are suitably journaled inthe car. The basins are arranged, by preference, along each side of thecar from the doors to the opposite ends, and all the basins on eachside, in order to be simultaneously operable, are connected together byrods j, extending from the door at each side of the car to the oppositeend. The journals of the troughs are projected through the ends of thecar, and are squared and. provided with crank-armsj whichare connectedto rods j", secured to the ends of the car and extended up intoconvenient reach of a trainhand on the roof of the car. By thisconstruction all of the basins on each side of the car may be operatedsimultaneously to bring them into position to contain water for theanimals in the car to drink, and afterward to tilt or tip them towardthe sides of the car to empty them and throw the water outside the car.

In my ase B, I have confined the invention of trough-operating mechanismto means for operating simultaneously the troughs on opposite sides ofthe car, at the same time I have provided for operating them singly; butI reserve to this case the operatingof the troughs singly by the directconnection of the operating-rod to a crank or arm applied separ atcly tothe journals of each trough. However, I may use in this case thetrough-operating mechanism of the other, though I do not claim herespecifically suehmechanism.

For the purpose of catching the splash from the drinking-troughs, andalso to insure the discharge of the waste water outside the ear, Iemploy gutters 7t beneath the troughs, (see specially Figs. 2, (j, and15 for det-ails,) and referring specially to this lastnamed figure (15,)the gutters are constructed as follows: A board, It, seton edge isextended along the front edge of the trough throughout its length, and abottom board, 75 is connected by a water-tight joint with this board It,and has a fall or pitch downward and outward 'f pp 'the said board,being extended slightly beyond the outside face of the car,- so as toinsure the conveyance of the waste water not only outside the car butalso away from it. The boards composing the gutter are firmly supportedand braced and the gutter secured to the side of the car by metallicbrackets 76 The boards 7;, herein referred to as protection-boards,subserve the ends of preventing injury to and dislocation of the troughsby the surging and crowding of the cattle, and also by the loading ofbulk freight, such as boxes, lumber, rails, &c.

As heretofore constructed, the drinkingtroughs have been of sufficientwidth to fill the space between the side walls of the car and theseprotection-boards when the troughs are in position for holding water, asin Fig. 11; but the depth. of the troughs is so much less than theirwidth, or their journals are so disposed that when the troughs are notin use and are turned up against the sides of the car there is quite aspace left between the boards and troughs, as indicated in Fig. 12. Nowit is not an uncommon thing for rearing animals to get their legs overthese protection-boards and between them and the reversed troughs, andoftentimes in their e'itorts to free them.- selves their legs arebroken. To remedy this evil, I make my troughs of equal width and depthon radii from their journals extending to their sides and bottom, and,if desired, to their top, so as to fill in the space between the side ofthe car and the protection-board in both positions of the troughs, asclearly indicated in Figs. '12 and ii, disposingof their journalsappropriately to this end.

Where the trough is composed of a number of basins they are suppliedwith water from the tanks at a lllllllll'llllll use of pipe by employinga single conduit, I, over each row of basins, (see Figs. 1 and 7,)withwhich the distrilniting-pipes of the tank are conneetcd. Inasmuch asit is desirable to use as light (and consequently cheap) pipe aspossible,l make up the conduit of basin lengths of pipe and unite theselengths of pipe by Ts, into the shanks of which latter nipples ornozzles Z are inserted. I prefer this construction because of itseconomy, for a conduit-pipe of sutficient thickness to admit of tappingin order to insert the nipples would not only add to the weight of thecar, but would be expensive. However, I do not ex elude from myinvention this last form of pipe, but am mindful of the fact that itsuse would greatly reduce the labor of fitting the Ts. The nipples arecurved, preferably, so as to break the force of the downiiowing columnof water, and hence convey it to the troughs with as little splash aspossible. An-

other and preferred form of trough is shown in detail in l igs. 4, 5, 8,9, and 10, and it consists of malleable cast heads in, of semicircularshape, or nearly so, provided with rightanglcd flanges, to which isriveted the body portion m of the trough. The body portion material.

In order to stiffen and brace the trough, I provide flanged partitions mdisposed at suitable intervals transversely of the trough, and riveted,soldered,brazed, or otherwise secured to it. The partitions are providedwith. openings on at their bottoms, (see Figs. 8 and 9,) so as to permitthe passage of the water from one end of the trough to the other.Another function of these partitions is to reduce swash in the troughs.The trough thus construct-ed may be in a single length extending fromone end of the car to the door at the other end, as shown in Fig. 10; orit may be divided and coupled byinterlocking heads of any suitable sort,as indicated at m in l, 5, and 9.

The troughs may have the intermediate journals, as shown, or they may behinged to the car-sides at their rear edge. \Vhen the troughs arejoined, as at on, these joints may ,may be sheet iron or steel or othersuitable 'the dampers in doors to stove ash-pi ts.

be utilized to provide an auxiliary bearing for the'troughs.

I do not enter into the details of the bearings or supports for thetroughs, as they are within the mechanics sphere and will be such ascircumstances require.

. To supply the troughs with water, the dis-- tributing-pipes g, comingdown from the tank at the center of the car, may be closed by screw-capsu, just above which and in opposition are orifices n a in the pipe toeject the water in opposite directions in. a gentle man ner. Thisejection of the water gently and with as little force and splash aspossible may be still better secured by the use of the T. (Shown in Fig.5 at n as applied to the pipe 9 Any device which will divert the fallingwater from a line following that of the pipe willaccomplish,essentially,the object I have in view. Two forms of hayrackare shown one in Fig. 2 and the other in Figs. 3 and 6.

In Fig. 2 the rack 0 may be of ordinary slatted form, or the peculiarslatted form set forth in Case 13. It is hinged at 0' to the side of thecar, and has a lip, 0 supported on a stationary timber or stop, 0 nearthe roof of the car. lVhen in the position of use, Fig. 2, the rack isfirmly secured by its hinges and the lip o and stop 0 'When not desiredfor use, it may be turned on its hinges 0 fiat against the side of thecar, and be held in that position, as by a hook, o engaging an eye, 0",though any other device may be em-,

ployed.

To close the rack against the animals in the car, shutter-boards 19 maybe hinged at their upper ends to the stops 0, or elsewhere, and anysuitable medium operable from outside the car may be employed forraising and lowering them.

It is taken for granted as understood that the racks may be arranged oneither or both of the sides of the car, and that they are accessiblefrom and fed by the hay-bins f.

Instead of the hinged flap shutter-board, I may employ a sliding shutter-board constructed and arranged to operate very much like (SeeFigs. 3 and 6.) The part 0 may be as before, and the sliding member maybe a duplicate of and secured parallel to the member 0, as by clips p,and it is adapted to be reciprocated longitudinally of the part 0. Thismovement of the sliding shutter-board may be accomplished by a lever, q,pivoted outside the car, so as to be operable from the .roof, as shownin Figs. 1 and 3, and connected by a flexible joint, q, Fig. 3, with thesliding board 13. This flexible connection admits of the movement of thehinged portion on its hinges.

The stopping and star-tin g of the trains and their passage over roughroads throwthe eattle with considerable violence against the ends andsides of the cars, often bruising and otherwise injuring them. I proposeto alleviate this diificulty by padding the protectionboards, asindicated at r in Fig. 14, and the ends of the car, as indicated at s ssin Fig. 2, with such material as cocoa-mattin or other durable butyielding fabric.

Either form of drinking-trough herein described, and either form ofhay-rack set-forth in this specification, may be employed in theconversion of ordinary stock-cars into so-called palace stock-ears,agreeably with the invention described in my Case B, before mentioned.So, also, the water-distribut-ers may be adapted to that, invention. I

Instead of using the shutter-board hayracks, I may here employ the rackspecified in Case B. I

In a word, the parts described in the two cases are interchangeable byobvious mechanical expedients; but I have separated the inventions onthe line of adaptability to new cars and to the conversion of old cars,bearingin mind the economical question presented in the two instances,and thus bringing the inventions within the requirements of railwaymanagement.

What I claim 1. In a stock-car, the water-tank c, straddling the ridge-pole substantially midway between the ends of the car and providedwith distributing-pipes 9 terminating in outlets composed of horizontalopenings leading "from opposite sides of such pipes over the drinking-troughs, combined with such troughs, substantially as described.

2. In a stock-car, water-tanks straddling the ridge-pole substantiallymidway between the ends of the car and provided with distributing-pipesg g, each havingthe opposite openings, n n, and closed by screw-caps n,and arranged over the drinking-troughs, combined with suchdrinking-troughs, substantially as described.

3. The gutter composed of the vertical protection -board 7;, slantingbottom 20 and braces connecting the protection-board an d bottom andsecuring them to the side of the car, in combination with the tiltingdrinkingtrough arranged wholly within such gutter 'and of a width anddepth relatively to its journal to fill the spaces between theprotection-board and sides of the car bothwhen in use and when not inuse, and means for tilting the troughs, substantially as described.

4. The gutter composed of the vertical protection-board 7e,slantingbottom 13, and braces 75*, connecting the protection-board andbottom and securing-them to the side of the car, in combination with thetilting drinkingtrough arranged wholly within such gutter and of a widthand depth relatively to its journal to fill the spaces between theprotection-board and sides of the car both when in use and when not inuse, and having its journal extended through and outside of the end ofthe car and connected with the crank j from which the operating-rod 7'extends up to the roof, substantially as described.

5. A folding hay-rack fixedly hinged at its lower end to the side of thecar and adapted to be folded up fiat against the side of the car,

and provided with a lip to engage stationary stops depending from theupper part of the car when the rack is inclined for use, substantiallyas described.

6. The hay-rack hinged at its lower end to the side of the car andadapted to fold up against the side of the ear, and having a lip toengage stationary stops depending from the top of the car, combined witha shutterboard and means to move it to open and close such rack,substantially as described.

